EcoHope must exist alongside EcoDespair, but the arts can offer a path for renewal through visual and responsive engagement. The artist -activists in this exhibition are intercessors and illuminators--whether the work is conceptual, allegorical or metaphorical, or representational and specific, it examines and addresses systemic environmental failure through remediation, confrontation, education, personal lived actions of the artist, or simply by drawing attention and asking the viewer to respond.Curated by J. Susan Isaacs and Erin Lehman. Artists: Diane Burko(Pennsylvania), Allison Janae Hamilton(New York), Basia Irland (New Mexico), and Mallory Zondag (New York). This exhibition and related programming supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council.